Chandelier.



No. 758,163. PATENTED APR-26,1904,

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UNITED STATES Patented April 26, 1904.

EMIL W'ITZENMANN, OF PFORZHEIM, GERMANY.

CHANDELIER.

- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 758,163, dated April 26, 1904.

Application filed September 15, 1903. Serial No, 173,340. (No model.)

To all whom/it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EMIL WITZENMANN, a subject of the Grand Duke of Baden, and a resident of Pforzheim, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Chandeliers, of which the following is a specification. Y

My invention relates to a chandelier having a flexible pipe or metallic hose from one end of which a lamp is suspended, the said hose passing over a pulley secured to a stationary arm or bracket and having its opposite'end attached to the stationary pendent gas-pipe. Between the said gas-pipe and the pulley a second pulley rests on the hose, and from the latter pulley a counterweight to balance the lamp is hung.

My new chandelier comprises two or more of such lamps. Each lamp has its own hose and supporting and weighting pulley; but all the latter pulleys are connected to a common counterweight which balances the whole of the lamps. By raising and lowering this weight the height of the chandelier as a whole can be adjusted as desired.

The improved chandelier may be constructed with like advantage for gas, electricity, or a liquid illuminant.

The drawing illustrates one form of construction of chandelierfaccording to my invention, the figure showing in elevation a twolight gaselier.

As the drawing shows, the branches of the gaselier carrying the lamps a, consist of metallic spiral hose 6, attached to the central gas stem or pipe f. The hose feed gas to the lamps, and each passes over a series of rollers contained in a shell 0.

0 represents similar pulley-blocks resting on the hose, and in the figure the blocks 0 c are shown intermediately adjacent to each other, so that the hose follows a serpentine course. To the pulley-blocks c is hung the common counterweight'd, by raising and lowering which the height of the lamps collectively may be adjusted as desired.

The details of construction of my chandelier may be designed in the most divers manners. This is particularly the case with respect to the supporting and the weight pulleys 0 c and the number of branches of hose employed.

If a three, four, or more light chandelier is used, it will be obvious that the strut g, uniting the pulley-blocks 0, will be replaced by a hoop or ring, supporting the. whole of the blocks 0.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A chandelier comprising a central fixed stem 1 pulleys arranged at each side thereof, flexible pipe connections supported on the fixed stem and extending out over the pulleys lamps on the outer ends of the flexible pipe connections, movable pulleys on the said flexible pipe connections intermediate of their length and a weight with flexible connections to both of the movable pulleys substantially as described. In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name, this 31st day of August, 1903, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EMIL WITZENMANN.

Witnesses:

EDWARD F. OZMUN, ERNs'r ENTENMANN. 

